Archive for July, 2007
UK’s best CO2 ratings
The UK’s Department of Transport has just launched an interesting new site that offers some great environmentally friendly tips, especially for buying new cars. Considering that most of these cars are available in South Africa, it should be quite useful for us too.
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Panda Attack!
Ok ok, nobody’s actually been attacked by a Panda - rather the title of this article refers to the Scott Kurtz‘ World of Warcraft guild, which I was briefly a member of during the dark days of my WoW addicition, but I digress….
You may remember my rather shameful admission that I drive a large, smoky […]
Hybrid Cayenne on the cards
When the Porsche Cayenne came out a few years ago, many pundits were shocked that the marque had brought out an SUV. I wonder what they would’ve thought if they’d been told that in a few years’ time there would be a hybrid Porsche SUV on the roads?
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Some awesome green car vids
Hope y’all have got some bandwidth left (gogo, South African telecoms) coz here are some pretty cool videos.
The first two are episodes from Project Phin - Clean My Ride. It’s a funny mocumentary about a guy’s quest to make motoring greener in the USA. The next three videos are part of a trailer for the […]
New eBike player hits SA market
I’ve just been contacted by James Swift from eZee SA - importers of the very impressive eZee electric bicycle range - to inform me of the availability of these bikes in South Africa. I immediately headed over to their site, and I must say, the products look very impressive indeed.
Unlike South Africa’s own […]
Driving style vs fuel consumption
This week, I’ve had my clearest indication yet that driving style affects one’s fuel consumption. The nature of my work requires that I do a lot of driving - since February ‘06 I’ve driven 100 000km.
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China overtakes USA as biggest CO2 producer
I missed this news (the article’s dated 22 June), but it’s certainly worth noting:
China has overtaken the US as the world’s top producer of carbon dioxide emissions — the biggest man-made contributor to global warming — based on the latest widely accepted energy consumption data, a Dutch research group says.
A report released on Tuesday […]
Save the world… stop having kids
Humanity’s impact on the environment is undeniable, that goes without saying. Accordingly, the vast majority of environmental organisations promote ways in which people (individually and collectively) can reduce their footprint. That’s what we do here at GreenCars - we tell you all to conserve fuel, drive less, use greener vehicles.
Last week’s World Population Day […]
Jay Leno drives the Tesla Roadster
American comedian, Jay Leno is a serious car nut. He also has bucketloads of money, so he can afford pretty much any car out there (he owns, among others, a McLaren F1, a Porsche Carrera GT and a Bentley Continental GT). In short, Leno knows what makes a good car.
That’s why it’s great news […]
This picture sums it all up
It’s common knowledge that the US consumes more petrol than any other country, but this picture from The Economist (that’s doing the rounds on pretty much every green Web site at the moment) is very useful in illustrating just how much fuel the US actually uses.You can see South Africa’s little portion too.
Another interesting chart […]
